Faulty Xbox - crashing at dashboard

[wakeup]

I just bought an xbox for $20 with some controllers from cl and when I tried it at home, it freezes in the logo screen. Obviously I'm upset, but it's really not about the money and more about how people would actually want to go through all that to get $20. I phoned the person back and no replies so I'm pretty sure he meant to sell a broken item.

I personally wouldn't care after phoning and not getting a reply. Sure, I can use another phone and get an answer. But chances are he won't give the money back and even if he does, it'll probably be through a lot of arguing and shit that won't be worth the time.

Just want to know if anyone had similar experiences and what did you do afterwards?

Edit: Xbox runs on the hard drive right? I think this one is modded, shows up Evo X screen and freezes. If I format the hard drive or just take it out, will the xbox fixes itself? How about if I reinstall Evo X?

[Haoie]

Funny, I'm deliberating the same thing. Bought a game, turns out the CD's practically broken in half with a huge crack in it.

Still, I paid $2. Thinking about leaving bad feedback [online], but is it worth it? Probably not in my case.

Maybe it is in yours.

[Hobie-wan]

Gotta be careful with electronics. Unless it's a cart system or something that's unlikely to die I usually want to test and see that it works. Someone was selling a GC for pretty cheap 'untested without cords' a few years ago. So I took cords. It was dead as a doornail. With all the problems with 360s I wouldn't buy one with the assumption it was working unless I could see it start up. Of course even then it's no guarantee that it won't die again after running for 20 minutes if someone had just done the towel trick to get it working for a few more minutes. I've have been suspicious at it being too cheap. But hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you can get it going again. I bet if it's hacked that the x-clamps have already been replaced. But they might not have gone as far as a round with flux and a heat gun.

[wakeup]

Gotta be careful with electronics. Unless it's a cart system or something that's unlikely to die I usually want to test and see that it works. Someone was selling a GC for pretty cheap 'untested without cords' a few years ago. So I took cords. It was dead as a doornail. With all the problems with 360s I wouldn't buy one with the assumption it was working unless I could see it start up. Of course even then it's no guarantee that it won't die again after running for 20 minutes if someone had just done the towel trick to get it working for a few more minutes. I've have been suspicious at it being too cheap. But hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you can get it going again. I bet if it's hacked that the x-clamps have already been replaced. But they might not have gone as far as a round with flux and a heat gun.

It was the original xbox. It's just $20 (which seems like a REASONABLE deal), I can't see why people would do so much for just $20. >$100 I can see. With the current technology, you can like track cell phone numbers and facebook and what not. People risk all that legal possibilities (slim), bad mouth/ bad reputation for $20. Then they go to the movies with popcorn and its gone. The guy drove too and I think he had cellphone data plans.

[Riqz85]

I'd try and see if some solder has come off the mod chip.

[Lord_Santa]

try pushing the "eject" button in order to come into the BIOS
if it works in there, you should be able to fiddle around and perhaps get it working

[wakeup]

try pushing the "eject" button in order to come into the BIOS
if it works in there, you should be able to fiddle around and perhaps get it working

I just get blank screen. Starting the xbox by pressing eject gets me the "Please contact Microsoft" screen after the normal xbox logo screen.

I have no knowledge on soldering and it looks complex. I did open it up and see a 160G drive in there, maybe I'll just use it on my desktop.

[Riqz85]

if you see a chip with some whimsy wires coming out from it then that's the chip. I'd try removing it and seeing if it works that way. Probably faulty.

[wakeup]

if you see a chip with some whimsy wires coming out from it then that's the chip. I'd try removing it and seeing if it works that way. Probably faulty.

Removing as in ripping it off right? Then it'll perhaps become a normal xbox again?

[emwearz]

Plug the hard-drive into your computer, in one of the partitions will be a cache folder, delete its contents.